South Florida administrators expressed fear that schools from Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach could be left behind, but a newly-formed task force heard Tuesday that Florida’s high school sports governing body still plans for football teams and others in fall sports to start playing games in mid-August.
“The Governor [Ron DeSantis] and commissioner of education [Richard Corcoran] are very optimistic about schools opening as scheduled in the fall,” said George Tomyn, executive director of the Florida High School Athletic Association. “I’m also remaining optimistic. At this moment in time, our staff is counting on a fall sports schedule that has already been published.